Category: Barcelona 2011
Oh my!
Choosing Urquinaona
Plaza Urquinaona, Barcelona. 2nd of March, 3am.
Tonight I celebrated that I am staying in Barcelona. Often in life one’s different goals, options and wishes interfere with each other and put one in a position where one is forced to choose between them. Why I love choices is because you always make the right one. Why I say that is because once you’ve made your choice you don’t know what the other options would have lead to, thus they don’t exist at the moment. Also, assuming that your options always are well thought over, there is no other person that could have made the choice better for you.
In some unique cases, however, choices and decisions are made for you without your direct approval or consent. When alternatives are taken away from you this way, your other alternatives need to be strong and attractive enough for you to feel that the right choice has been made, and that you agree with it.
In my case, the current options were exciting sudden change and new opportunities, again – or to actually breathe in and enjoy what I just started doing. The decision is that I am staying in the fantastic city of Barcelona, with the high ceilings in my room, the beautiful language, the wonderful people.. and all the upcoming music festivals – and frankly, even if I will continue looking for alternatives, I couldn’t be more relieved at the moment.
Adding on to that, tomorrow I start late – meaning that I can sleep until I wake up by my self, a detail that might seem of minor importance – but that today is priceless.
Goodnight! :)
Montserrat
Casa Batlló
Rainbow
Sunny Güell
Insane.
Birthday 2011
My 25th birthday easily qualified into the list of nice ones. The day was sunny, I was invited to wonderful dinner that had me food-coma paralysed for an hour and I spent time with people I like. In the evening I threw a party at my place and mixed 27 new Barcelona friends with very different backgrounds in my small livingroom – they proved to get along really well and everybody seemed to have a good time. We continued to a club, danced all night and shared food, talks and laughs at sunrise. I got to bed when the sun already had been up for a couple of hours so summing it up it was a good 25th, even if some friends from Sweden obviously were missed.
Thank you all my new friends!
Like many of my days, this one has its own theme song. It’s an The XX remix of a Florence and the Machine song called You’ve Got the Love and I have been playing it on repeat today. As always – I’m sharing my goodies. Enjoy!
Florence and The Machine – You’ve Got the Love (The XX Remix) (2009)
Friendships
I was just in one of the nice little bars around the corner, and with a new friend in front of me and a glass of wine in my hand the clock passed midnight. I’m good, it wasn’t that bad this time. I even got a very thoughtful present – you really do listen to the things I tell you! Thank you so much for keeping me company, I had a lot of fun and it means a lot. New friendships are a beautiful thing. So are the long and lasting ones, thank you for your calls darlings, I love you.